Strong’s H8511 · Hebrew
תָּלָא
tâlâʼ · taw-law'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to suspend; figuratively (through hesitation) to be uncertain; by implication (of mental dependence) to habituate
In the King James Version be bent, hang (in doubt).
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 28:66And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
- 2 Samuel 21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
- Hosea 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.